<html><body><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div></div><div style="font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><h3 style="color: rgb(221, 119, 34); font-weight: normal; margin: 2px 0px 4px; font-size: 1.1em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21.61458396911621px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>"Genuine questions--ones for which we don't already have answers--are open invitations to innovation." (Brown, p.90)</em></span></strong></span></h3><div><p style="margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">SWON Libraries' first World Cafe event will be held May 2, 2013 in conjunction with our Regional Spring Luncheon and Membership Meeting. Called<span class="apple-converted-space" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"> </span><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 64); text-decoration: none;"><a title="Innovation Cafe" target="_blank" href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=482"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Innovation Cafe</span></a><a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=482" title="Innovation Cafe " target="_blank"></a>, <a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=482" title="Innovation Cafe (Registration link)" target="_blank"></a></span></b><a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=482" title="Innovation Cafe (Registration link)" target="_blank"><b style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 64); text-decoration: none;"></span></b></a>we hope to foster important conversations around innovation in libraries. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;"><strong>What is the World Cafe?</strong></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">We all get tied up with solving problems, looking at our 'lack' and trying to manage with what we have. We often feel isolated and alone in dealing with these problems. The World Cafe concept promotes the idea that we can hold meaningful conversations in community, and what can emerge are patterns and understandings<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>that we cannot access while driving to that next 'solution.'</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">We hope that our open conversations around genuine questions facilitates further innovations in our libraries and in our communities, for the benefit of everyone.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">At the World Cafe You Can Expect to:</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">* Contribute your thinking and experience<br> * Listen to understand<br> * Connect ideas<br> * Listen together for patterns, insights, and deeper questions</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">The Innovation Cafe will pose open-ended questions on the topic of innovation in our libraries. We welcome input on question development. Please send along your ideas to <a href="mailto:melanie@swonlibraries.org" title="melanie@swonlibraries.org" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: rgb(64, 0, 64);">melanie@swonlibraries.org</span></b></a>.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"></span></p><p style="margin-bottom: .15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background: white;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For more information about the World Cafe see the book:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br> <strong>The World Cafe: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter</strong>, Juanita Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005 or visit the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="http://www.theworldcafe.com/" title="World Cafe online" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(64, 0, 64); text-decoration: none;">World Cafe online</span></b></a><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0.15in; line-height: 16.2pt; background-color: white;">Registration: <a href="http://tiny.cc/spring_cafe" target="_blank" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: Garamond; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-href="http://tiny.cc/spring_cafe" data-mce-style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer; font-family: Garamond; background-color: #fdfdfd;" title="http://tiny.cc/spring_cafe">http://tiny.cc/spring_cafe</a></p></div><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;"></span></p><hr><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Also in May,</span><br></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;">Join your colleagues as we update our customer service skills in a full-day of learning that is interactive and fun.</span></span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;">You don't just help patrons who walk up to the reference desk. You also help your co-workers. Working well with your co-workers helps the library serve patrons efficiently, but it also helps you get things done more easily. Have you ever worked somewhere with calls transferred to you and you have no idea who's on the other end? Aggravating, right? If you've got an answer, please post it on our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/SWONLibraries" title="Facebook page" target="_blank">Facebook page</a>. </span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;">Learn ways to help your co-workers and your patrons at SWON's Spring Training Symposium (formerly called the Support Staff Symposium). We'll meet at the Dayton Metro Library on May 21 from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. for a keynote talk and breakout sessions.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;">To learn more about the Spring Training Symposium and complete your registration, please go to our calendar: <span style="font-family: Garamond; background-color: #fdfdfd;"></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT16046_com_zimbra_url" style="color: #336699; cursor: pointer; font-family: Garamond; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=334&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=5/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" target="_blank" style="color: #336699; text-decoration: none; cursor: pointer;" title="http://tiny.cc/spring_staff">http://tiny.cc/spring_staff</a></span><a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=334" target="_blank" title="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=334"><br></a></span></p></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium; background-color: white;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium; background-color: white;">Come check us out on our calendar at</span><a href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventcalendar.asp?pointer=&num=0&rts=&kw=&dt=mo&ds=&de=&sd=&mo=11/1/2012&df=calendar&nopw=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0" target="_blank" style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium; background-color: white;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139);"> http://tiny.cc/SWON-Calendar</span></a></span></div></div></div><div><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: medium;">Website,<a href="http://www.swonlibraries.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 139);"> swonlibraries.org</span></a></span></p><p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif; 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background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">March</span></span></p><table border="1" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0" align="center" style="width: 90%" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr align="center" valign="bottom" dir="ltr"><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Event</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Date</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Location</span></td></tr><tr align="center" valign="bottom" dir="ltr"><td><a data-mce-href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=491&rts=&disptype=info&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=491&rts=&disptype=info&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" title="Jumpstart your Career in Youth Services Librarianship" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Jumpstart your Career in Youth Services Librarianship</span></a></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">3/16/13</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Kent State University</span></td></tr><tr align="center" valign="bottom" dir="ltr"><td><a data-mce-href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=460&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=460&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" title="Academic SIG - Retention Session I" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Academic SIG - Retention Session I</span></a></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">3/18/13</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Cincinnati State Technical & Community College</span></td></tr><tr align="center" valign="bottom" dir="ltr"><td><a data-mce-href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=383&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=383&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" title="Using Logic and Reasoning Skills to Express and Impress" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Using Logic and Reasoning Skills to Express and Impress</span></a></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">3/19/13</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">On line</span></td></tr><tr align="center" valign="bottom" dir="ltr"><td><a data-mce-href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=413&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" href="http://oh.evanced.info/swon/lib/eventsignup.asp?ID=413&rts=&disptype=&ret=eventcalendar.asp&pointer=&returnToSearch=&num=0&ad=&dt=mo&mo=3/1/2013&df=calendar&EventType=ALL&Lib=&AgeGroup=&LangType=0&WindowMode=&noheader=&lad=&pub=1&nopub=&page=&pgdisp=" title="Summer Reading Program Workshop - East" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Summer Reading Program Workshop - East</span></a></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">3/20/13</span></td><td><span style="font-family: garamond, 'new york', times, serif;">Clermont County Public Library Union Twp. 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